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Chronic Underinvestment

January 5, 2011 Mike Thomas

Underinvestment in infrastructure was the most likely culprit behind the recent Northern Ireland water crisis as watermains froze then broke,…

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Posted in: Civil Engineering, Management, Sustainability, Water Filed under: Civil, disaster, disaster management, engineering, Northern Ireland Water, Sustainability, Water, Water Supply

The False Hope of Linearity

August 3, 2010 Mike Thomas

Humans have the remarkable ability to ignore almost every sign pointing to anything but the most favourable outcome. For somethings,…

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Posted in: Sustainability, Transitions Filed under: assumptions, BC, future, futurism, linear, predictions, relationship, Sustainability, unpredictable

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July 20, 2010 Mike Thomas 2 Comments

Image by urbanworkbench via Flickr So I’ve been online on UrbanWorkbench.com for about four years now. It all started back…

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Posted in: Blogging Filed under: Australia, Business, Canada, environment, Sustainability

Why I Write

June 28, 2010 Mike Thomas 3 Comments

Image by urbanworkbench via Flickr Writing is part of my daily routine, I write a lot, both for work and…

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Posted in: Blogging, Civil Engineering, Kootenays, Sustainability Filed under: British Columbia, Civil Engineering, Creative Class, Design, engineering, environment, Sustainability, urban planning

Set Up for Failure

June 16, 2010 Mike Thomas 4 Comments

As a society, (or a species, take your pick), we are terrible at planning and strategising much further than what…

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Posted in: Energy, Sustainability, Technology Filed under: agriculture, Energy, environment, Fossil fuel, Latin America, peak oil, Population growth, resource depletion, resources, Sustainability, United States

Simplicity

June 9, 2010 Mike Thomas 8 Comments

My whole life is surrounded by technology that has been discovered or invented in the past 50 years. I am…

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Posted in: Civil Engineering, Conference, Design, Technology Filed under: civil engineer, Civil Engineering, Design, engineering, simple, simplicity, simplify, Sustainability

Green Like God

May 27, 2010 Mike Thomas 5 Comments

In conjunction with FaithWords, a division of the Hachette Book Group, UrbanWorkbench has two copies of Green Like God by…

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Posted in: Book Review Filed under: Christian, Christianity, Environmental, Green Like God, humanity, Jonathan Merritt, religion, society, Sustainability

Projecting the Future for Civil Society

May 14, 2010 Mike Thomas 1 Comment

I’m slowly whittling my way through the pile of great books on my desk, I haven’t done a book review…

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Posted in: Book Review, Business, Community, Energy, Governance, Sustainability, Transitions Filed under: Activism, Charles Hughes Smith, economics, environment, future, politics, realism, society, survival, Survival Plus, Sustainability, USA

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